All3Media was officially acquired last month for £1.15B ($1.46B) by RedBird IMI, the Abu Dhabi-backed investment vehicle run by former CNN chief Jeff Zucker. Zucker says buying the Traitors producer was a no-brainer: “Assets of that size and caliber don’t become available very often.”
All3Media has been something of a sleeping giant in recent years. The company has grown organically under the leadership of respected CEO Jane Turton, but it has not been the hard-charging acquisitions force it once was, with its last major deal approaching a four-year anniversary. This seems set to change. >>>Looking For "The Right Opportunities" |
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Charlamagne Tha God On Tonight's Debate - "We live in an era where nobody cares about the truth when the lie is more entertaining. When you're watching that debate, President Biden can go out there …say things that have substance,” Charlamagne Tha God says just hours before Joe Biden and Donald Trump face off in their first live debate of the 2024 election. "And on Friday morning, the sound bites are going to be whatever bullsh*t Donald Trump said,” the Breakfast Club co-host adds. >>> ElectionLine Podcast Interview
'K Street' Goes Hollywood - Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner’s Working Title has teamed with Universal International Studios to win the D.C. drama spec series package K Street in a 5-way bidding war. Pilot script was written by Pat Cunnane, President Obama’s former longtime aide at the White House. >>>Workplace Drama
Chicken Soup For The Cash-Strapped? - In the latest sign of trouble for Redbox parent Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, the company’s employees tell Deadline they have not been paid in nearly a week and their medical benefits have been suspended. >>>Internal Emails
Hall H Will Be Marvel-ous This Summer - Following a sleepy San Diego Comic-Con last summer due to the actors strike, this year’s confab is about to explode with the return of Marvel Studios to Hall H, per sources. >>>'Fantastic Four' Cast Appearance? A24 Sticks With The Script - With MaXXXine bowing next week, A24 is jumping back in the horror genre, as sources tell Deadline it has landed the package Mice with V/H/S architect David Bruckner directing. Todd Spence and Zak White penned the script and the spec marks their first sale to a major studio. >>>First-Time Writer
"This Is Our World Cup Final" - Barely anyone in the deeply connected worlds of British politics and the media seemed to think the country's election would come so soon, according to those Deadline has spoken with. But players in both realms are now readying for their biggest night of the year next week. >>>'Round-The-Clock Preparations
In Brief - Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour director Sam Wrench launches Next Of Kin Content... Smile star Sosie Bacon signs with Gersh... Sony dates Street Fighter movie... Van Helsing series in the works at CBS |
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Felonious Gru and his brood return to the big screen July 3 in Illumination and Universal Pictures’ Despicable Me 4, seven years after its predecessor and two years after spinoff prequel Minions: The Rise of Gru.
Co-directors Chris Renaud and Patrick Delage touched down at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in mid-June for its French premiere, prior to the movie’s launch in the U.S.
It was a special occasion for Renaud, who still gets goosebumps at the memory of the audience’s rousing response to the screening of the original Despicable Me movie there in 2010.
Talking to Deadline the next day, Renaud admits he nearly teared up while on stage to introduce the new film.
“I could see it going that way, so I kind of talked myself out of it… it’s been a long time that I’ve been working with these characters, so you do get a moment to reflect a little bit,” says the Baltimore-born, Paris-based animation heavyweight. >>>Read The Interview |
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Sarah Michelle Gellar will boss around a certain serial killer in training in Dexter: Original Sin. In a special guest starring role, Gellar will play Tanya Martin, the CSI Chief at the Miami Metro Police Department and Dexter Morgan’s new boss.
Jeffrey Wright has been tapped to star opposite Michael Fassbender in The Agency (fka The Department), George Clooney’s remake of French political drama series The Bureau.
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Andrew Lincoln has landed a role on the other side of the pond for the first time in well over a decade. It's in an ITV thriller that he will produce titled Cold Water, which is penned by storied playwright David Ireland and produced by Eric outfit Sister.
One day after General Hospital thrilled fans by announcing that Jonathan Jackson is returning to the ABC sudser, Michael Easton has announced that he’s moving out of Port Charles. The veteran soap star said his last day is June 27.
Christian Borle, the two-time Tony winner, will replace the previously-announced Andrew Rannells in this fall’s Broadway production of Tammy Faye, the Elton John-composed musical about televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. |
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$53 billion - Universal's estimate of the overall economic benefits a proposed UK theme park and resort will generate for the host country |
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More News 🎪 Cirque du Soleil is getting into the TV and film business. The circus group is launching its own entertainment studio and has hired former CBS and WWE exec Susan Levison to run it. One of Cirque du Soleil Studio’s first projects is a feature film based on O, its water-themed production, with Ridley Scott and his Scott Free banner developing.
🏀 With its long-term NBA relationship in limbo, TNT Sports has set a 6-year rights deal with the Big East Conference for men's and women's college basketball.
🤖 Al Michaels, whose call of the 1980 U.S. hockey team’s Olympics upset over the USSR is a sports broadcasting milestone, will deliver AI-enhanced daily recaps of the Paris Games this summer on Peacock.
🔍 Former Entertainment Tonight co-anchor Nancy O’Dell is launching Crime Exposé with Nancy O’Dell, a new daily, syndicated half-hour true-crime series. It will debut on September 23 with 95% of U.S. markets already sold. |
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Obituaries
🕯 Bill Cobbs, a prolific film and TV actor with memorable performances in Night at the Museum, Brother From Another Planet, Oz the Great and Powerful, The Sopranos and dozens of others, died surrounded by family Tuesday of natural causes at his home in the Inland Empire. He was 90. 🕯 Sika Anoa’i, who became a wrestling legend as part of The Wild Samoans tag team with his brother, died June 25. He was 79. 🕯 Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2024 Photo Gallery |
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Thu - First Biden-Trump debate; A Quiet Place: Day One opens
Fri - Horizon opens; Karlovy Vary kicks off
Sat - ESPY nominations announced; Tour de France begins |
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Sequins Of Events - A Quiet Place: Day One star Lupita Nyong'o shimmered at the film's New York City premiere. |
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After 12 days in domestic release, the blockbuster sequel 
